<p><strong><em>Red, White, & Royal Blue</em></strong><strong> meets <em>The West Wing</em> in Jasper Sanchez’s electric and insightful #ownvoices YA debut, chronicling a transmasculine student’s foray into a no-holds-barred student body president election against the wishes of his politician father. </strong></p><p>Optics can make or break an election. Everything Mark knows about politics, he learned from his father, the Congressman who still pretends he has a daughter and not a son.</p><p>Mark has promised to keep his past hidden and pretend to be the cis guy everyone assumes he is. But when he sees a manipulatively charming candidate for student body president inflame dangerous rhetoric, Mark risks his low profile to become a political challenger.</p><p>The problem? No one really knows Mark. He didn’t grow up in this town, and his few friends are all nerds. Still, thanks to <em>Scandal </em>and <em>The West Wing</em>, they know where to start: from campaign stop